Contents:
Tuning Out
Everybody on Alert
=>Remasking
A Winnable Fight, Should We Choose It: Monkeypox
Sports
Politics Judiciaries and Courts
Misinformation
=>Mixed Messages
CODA
In the news this week: To bypass the noise and human limits of short- and medium-term memories in a “polycrisis” environment, a lay twitter user renamed the newest Omicron subvariant after a mythic Greek creature, and the press swiftly substituted “Centaurus” for BA.2.75. (I’d assumed Centaurus variant referred to BA.12.1. The separate nickname is working already!)
A rare communication win. Let’s do that with other knowledge. For example, even experts in July 2022 are caught by surprise that COVID reinfections happen. Archives show it has been reported, and re-reported that people can be re-re-reinfected with COVID:
🗄️ Oct. 13, 2020 'Sicker the second time': Here's how COVID-19 reinfection may impact immunity, vaccine development (ABC 7 Bay Area) - "The reason why they know it was a separate infection is that they did ge…
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